Pay
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- Minimum wage
Employers warn of price pressures as one in five workers get 4.75% pay rise
Millions of Australians have been handed a pay rise, and the lowest-paid workers are getting the biggest bump in a move employer groups warn will fuel inflation.
- Millie Muroi and Brittany Busch
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DroneShield directors sold $67 million in shares. The watchdog has questions
ASIC has launched an investigation into the counter-drone group’s disclosures, six months after a botched contract announcement and a $67 million director sell-off.
- David Swan
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- Inflation
Big business ordered to pay up for truckies’ fuel bills, putting pressure on inflation
Retailers, manufacturers and mining companies will be made to pay drivers more in what is the first industry-wide order under new laws.
- Elias Visontay
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- Industrial relations
‘I gave everything’: Feuding Sydney pub barons face underpayment claims
Dozens of employees were allegedly underpaid at hospitality venues co-owned by Arthur Laundy and Fraser Short, according to a leaked audit.
- Eryk Bagshaw
‘Mixed emotions’: How a record pay increase left nurses disappointed
Nurses and midwives in NSW will receive pay increases after the court acknowledged the majority-female workforce had been historically undervalued.
- Angus Thomson
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- Media & marketing
‘Urgent meeting’: ABC peace deal over pay on brink of collapse
The staff union has called an “urgent meeting” on potential further industrial action after accusing the public broadcaster’s management on back-peddling on pay grade rises.
- Calum Jaspan
Junior pay rates for 18 to 20-year-olds to be scrapped
Younger Australians working in sectors such as retail, fast food and pharmacy will soon be paid the same award wage as their older colleagues.
- Millie Muroi
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- Immigration
Migrant workers owed $300,000 in unpaid wages in ‘pervasive’ exploitation problem
More than half of the cafes, pubs and restaurants inspected were caught underpaying or exploiting workers in what experts say is a deeply entrenched problem across regional Australia.
- Annika Smethurst
‘It wears away at the pay packet’: Grandmothers cut work hours to do free childcare
As more households need two parents working full-time to survive, grandmothers are reducing their own work and income to offer childcare. Some say they should be paid.
- Wendy Tuohy
Labor pushes real-wage increase for millions of workers despite inflation fears
The federal government has requested the increase in its annual submission to the Fair Work Commission, but does not go as far as the country’s biggest union.
- Nick Newling